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Setting up your environment

This tutorial depends on a few key packages to work correctly. This page will outline how to install all the necessary components for this workshop. If you’re attending this tutorial at Bioconductor 2022, you can skip directly to the next page.

Prerequisites

All content will be shown using the R programming language. For existing users, note that your version of R must be at least version 4.x.x for compatibility with the packages we’ll be using.

I also recommend using RStudio as a development environment, since it’s an excellent IDE with tons of features. This step is totally optional; feel free to use whatever development environment you prefer.

Installing packages

This workshop depends on two main packages: DECIPHER and SynExtend. These will be installed via Bioconductor, a package manager for open source bioinformatics projects in R.

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install('DECIPHER')
BiocManager::install('SynExtend')

Downloading Data

Click the below button to download all datafiles used in this workshop.